Re: [Muine] [Patch] Better album defining

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Hi,

In CVS I made the album bit of the album key case insensitive. Should
improve the situation is a little. But I'm afraid we can't do more due
to reasons I explained in a different email earlier ..

Jorn

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 20:17 +0100, iain wrote:
> Two possibly fairly typical use cases that Muine seems to have problems
> with:
> 
> Case #1
> 
> I have a pretty poorly tagged mp3 collection. As an example I have
> tracks by KOOP, Koop and koop, from albums called "Waltz for Koop.",
> "waltz for koop" and "Waltz For Koop". Its pretty clear that these are
> all the same album - "Waltz For Koop" by Koop. Muine however gives me 3
> albums.
> 
> Attached is a patch that makes a canonical name from album strings by
> converting the name to lower case, and removing all punctuation. This
> canonical name is then used as the album key.
> 
> Case #2
> 
> I really don't care about how things are laid out on the filesystem. As
> a consequence of this, I have one huge mp3 directory ~/Media/Music. It
> contains 500 mp3s. Then I also have another directory in it called
> ~/Media/Music/Unsorted. It contains about the same number of mp3s but
> they've got dumb names, because they've just been copied from my friends
> iTunes collection. And then when I rip a CD using Sound-Juicer, it
> extracts the tracks to ~/Media/Music/album-title/
> 
> Scattered about these directories are various tracks from the same
> album, I could have Music/radiohead-lurgee.mp3 and
> Music/Unsorted/radiohead-you.mp3. Both of these are from the same album
> - "Pablo Honey" by Radiohead. Muine however creates two separate albums
> because the pathname is different, the album keys are Music/Pablo Honey
> and Music/Unsorted/Pablo Honey.
> 
> Another problem with using pathname + album name is the case where two
> artists have 2 different albums with the same title, and I have the
> tracks in the same directory.
> 
> The patch also fixes this case by using artists, album name, and
> performers as the album key, instead of pathname, album name. The only
> thing I've thought of is should it use performer as these might be
> different between songs?
> 
> I guess the real question in all this is "How well do we want Muine to
> handle poorly organised and poorly tagged files?". I know it would be
> nice to insist that people organise their files in a heirarchal
> Genre/Artist/Album directory structure and have all their files
> correctly tagged, but I think its really silly to believe that that
> would happen for most people.
> 
> Any comments (either of my patch or the question)?
> 
> iain
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